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June 1, 2022
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language-agnostic, Programming

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What is an existential type?

I read through the Wikipedia article Existential types. I gathered that they’re called existential types because of the existential operator (∃). I’m not ...

May 31, 2022
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Java, Programming

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Picking a random element from a set

How do I pick a random element from a set? I’m particularly interested in picking a random element from a HashSet or a ...

May 31, 2022
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algorithm, Programming

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In-Place Radix Sort

This is a long text. Please bear with me. Boiled down, the question is: Is there a workable in-place radix sort algorithm? Preliminary ...

May 30, 2022
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Java, Programming

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What happens when there’s insufficient memory to throw an OutOfMemoryError?

I am aware that every object requires heap memory and every primitive/reference on the stack requires stack memory. When I attempt to create ...

May 30, 2022
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